Healthscope financial teardown: Inside the collapse of Australia’s $5.7 billion hospital giant

Jason Andrew of SmartCompany dissects the downfall of Healthscope, revealing how Brookfield’s $5.7 billion leveraged buyout — fuelled by debt, real-estate sell-offs, and over-optimistic margin assumptions — left Australia’s second-largest private hospital network crushed by rising labour costs, insurer squeeze, and falling occupancy, turning a once-profitable healthcare leader into an insolvency cautionary tale.

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